Maybe this will clear things up for you.<br><br>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'<br><br>Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American<br>people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet<br>in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain.<br><br>Observer Worldview<br><br>Sunday November 24, 2002<br><br>In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,<br><br>"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who<br>are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to<br>give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39]<br><br>"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight<br>in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So<br>fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of<br>Satan."[Quran 4:76]<br><br>Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are<br>we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which<br>adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not.<br>Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for<br>Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.<br><br>While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at<br>the Americans:<br><br>(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you? Q2)What are we calling you to, and<br>what do we want from you?<br><br>As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is<br>very simple:<br><br>(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.<br><br>a) You attacked us in Palestine:<br><br>(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years.<br>The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews,<br>who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression,<br>tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation<br>and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the<br>leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove<br>the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime<br>which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in<br>the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.<br><br>(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of<br>repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to<br>Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with<br>them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most<br>fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine<br>are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of<br>Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been<br>changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus<br>and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of<br>Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are<br>the most worthy nation of this.<br><br>When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and<br>Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon<br>them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised<br>against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and<br>blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.<br><br>(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know<br>that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their<br>sons are not orphaned alone.<br><br>(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us<br>in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish<br>aggression against us in Lebanon.<br><br>(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries<br>which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;<br><br>(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah,<br>using violence and lies to do so.<br><br>(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large<br>prison of fear and subdual.<br><br>(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a<br>paltry price.<br><br>(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of<br>Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs<br>of their own people.<br><br>(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary<br>step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain<br>Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out<br>fight against you.<br><br>(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international<br>influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever<br>witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.<br><br>(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout<br>them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the<br>security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our<br>treasures.<br><br>(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a<br>wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your<br>sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the<br>entire world rises and has not yet sat down.<br><br>(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal<br>capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your<br>protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the<br>protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as<br>a preparation to capture and destroy it.<br><br>(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression<br>and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that<br>the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from<br>us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that<br>after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then<br>leave her to live in security and peace?!!<br><br>(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against<br>civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not<br>partake:<br><br>(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the<br>land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people<br>are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice<br>which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have<br>chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of<br>the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its<br>continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The<br>American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their<br>Government and even to change it if they want.<br><br>(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes<br>that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in<br>Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets<br>which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it<br>to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the<br>ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the<br>expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected<br>candidates.<br><br>(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same<br>people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.<br><br>(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women<br>in the American Forces which attack us.<br><br>(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes<br>committed by the Americans and Jews against us.<br><br>(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take<br>revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back.<br>Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy<br>their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right<br>to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the<br>right to kill theirs.<br><br>The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:<br><br>Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?<br><br>If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of<br>peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so<br>we are addressing it using the language it understands.<br><br>(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you<br>to, and what do we want from you?<br><br>(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.<br><br>(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners<br>with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of<br>complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions,<br>orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down<br>to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the<br>prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.<br><br>It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions.<br>It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners,<br>righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing<br>kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their<br>rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of<br>enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It<br>is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion<br>reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to<br>Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour,<br>sex, or language.<br><br>(b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and<br>unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The<br>Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to<br>bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.<br><br>(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies,<br>immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.<br><br>(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to<br>reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's,<br>and trading with interest.<br><br>We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become<br>caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great<br>nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable<br>state to which you have reached.<br><br>(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by<br>the history of mankind:<br><br>(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its<br>Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire.<br>You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which<br>affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the<br>embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to<br>create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant<br>them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in<br>need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?<br><br>(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the<br>religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of<br>this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your<br>economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now<br>control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their<br>aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.<br><br>(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of<br>intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even<br>though your nation is the largest consumer of them.<br><br>(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to<br>be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from<br>level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither<br>your sense of honour nor your laws object.<br><br>Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official<br>Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that<br>he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there<br>a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered<br>by nations?<br><br>(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies<br>practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the<br>criminals becoming rich.<br><br>(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising<br>tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve<br>passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then<br>rant that you support the liberation of women.<br><br>(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms,<br>directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established<br>on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other<br>deceptive names you attribute to it.<br><br>(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation<br>that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast<br>to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American<br>Invention.<br><br>(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than<br>any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto<br>agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies<br>and*industries.<br><br>(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their<br>political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind<br>them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.<br><br>(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you<br>have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history;<br>not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and<br>profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to<br>negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice<br>have you carried out, O callers to freedom?<br><br>(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both<br>manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners,<br>principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.<br><br>(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white<br>race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous,<br>destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet<br>you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in<br>Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed<br>your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and<br>guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book<br>of democracy'!!!<br><br>(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction<br>to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not<br>permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as<br>Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their<br>security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these<br>kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against<br>them.<br><br>(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of<br>International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who<br>does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and<br>rules against the wall with the full support of America.<br><br>(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you<br>shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not<br>forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the<br>world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq<br>will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to<br>remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated<br>innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing<br>the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying<br>inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they<br>left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your<br>prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have<br>died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the<br>Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.<br><br>(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of<br>Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries<br>that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the<br>Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented<br>governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the<br>Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor<br>even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.<br><br>What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its<br>values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of<br>your signature on any agreement or treaty?"<br><br>(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves -<br>and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are a nation without<br>principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something<br>which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.<br><br>(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the<br>Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease<br>supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.<br><br>(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire<br>for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you<br>back as cargo in coffins.<br><br>(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our<br>countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us<br>alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.<br><br>(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual<br>interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and<br>occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this<br>will result in more disasters for you.<br><br>If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the<br>Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and<br>fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the<br>words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you<br>are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands<br>and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of<br>believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah<br>accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise."<br>[Quran9:13-1]<br><br>The Nation of honour and respect:<br><br>"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad-<br>peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]<br><br>"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will<br>be*superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]<br><br>The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire<br>life:<br><br>"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are<br>alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what<br>Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those<br>who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on<br>them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a<br>bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers."<br>[Quran 3:169-171]<br><br>The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:<br><br>"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance<br>and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other<br>religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]<br><br>"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be<br>victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]<br><br>The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil<br>Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove<br>your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic<br>Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.<br><br>If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and<br>righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this<br>Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were<br>humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence<br>and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of<br>the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat,<br>political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.<br><br>This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know<br>why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah,<br>we shall be victorious?<p><hr></blockquote><p><br>There is a key fundamentalism you left out. Fundamental Zionism.<br><br>http://www.palestineremembered.com<br><br>Who benefits from these attacks?<br><br>http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf<br><br>

So while my commentary was simplistic, it was in essence correct. Having missed out the why they attacked us:<br>1) We support the jews.<br>2) We support the governments in the middle east - preventing ObL from overthrowing them and forming them into an Islamic Caliphate.<br>3) Placing bases in the middle east.<br>4) and a few more, but those are enough for now.<br><br>To repent and prevent further attacks, we must:<br>1) Go home and leave the jews to be killed.<br>2) Let ObL and cohorts overthrow the middle eastern governments - uniting into a single nation.<br>3) Convert to Islam<br>4) Give up or debauchery - including homosexuality, fornication, gambling, and intoxications.<br>5) Stop exploiting women - keep them locked up at home and arrange their marriages for them.<br><br>That pretty much covers the major points - and I liked the bit about letting Bill Clinton get off scot-free - my first thought was ObL's a Republican <br><br>Either way, I would have thought that in most peoples view - be it Christian, Jewish, Agnostic, Buddhist or whatever - there's one or two of those requirements to call off the attacks which are going to be a bit of a sticking point. I know I don't intend to convert to Islam, and I'm probably not the only one here.<br><br><br><br>We all do what we do for the same reason: because it seems like a good idea at the time.

_________________________I used to think it was terrible that life was unfair. Then I thought what if life were fair and all of the terrible things that happen came because we really deserved them? Now I take comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe.

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>1) We support the jews.<p><hr></blockquote><p>Do you support ethnic cleansing?<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>2) We support the governments in the middle east<p><hr></blockquote><p>Yes the U.S. supports, props up, trains, arms dictatorships, despotic regimes, etc. when it suits it's interests, including Saddam Husseien and Osama bin Laden<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>preventing ObL from overthrowing them and forming them into an Islamic Caliphate.<p><hr></blockquote><p>Your twist just isn't there.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>3) Placing bases in the middle east.<p><hr></blockquote><p>U.S. strategy. Military control of the entire planet. Weaponizing space. China is the end game. Faked U.S. satelite imagery got the bases in Saudi Arabia. (There were NO Iraqi tanks and 250,000 Iraqi troops massed along the Saudi border)<br><br>And since the rest of your post is a bunch of unsubstantiated crap. Especially this world must convert to islam crap! I'll leave it there.<br><br>What ever you do, do not deal with the roots of the problems, including it's associated history.<br><br><br><br><br>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?<p><hr></blockquote><p>Sorry I was assuming that the reponses to this question was basically what does America need to do to stop the fundamentilist from attacking us. What did you think it meant?<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our<br>countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us<br>alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.<br><br>(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual<br>interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and<br>occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this<br>will result in more disasters for you.<br><br>If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the<br>Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and<br>fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the<br>words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you<br>are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands<br>and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of<br>believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah<br>accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise."<br>[Quran9:13-1]<p><hr></blockquote><p>And the entire subtext of this is that they want to replace the corrupt leaders of the Islamic world.<br><br>But then again I could be way off base. Care to provide your read on this? Or were you just concentrating on the reasons rather than their proposed solution?<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>There is a key fundamentalism you left out. Fundamental Zionism.<p><hr></blockquote><p><br>And there were many key fundamentalisms that I left out, so feel free to add more to my list as you discover them. Or are you just fixated on the one yourself?<br><br>We all do what we do for the same reason: because it seems like a good idea at the time.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Llewelyn on 07/12/05 00:12 AM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>

_________________________I used to think it was terrible that life was unfair. Then I thought what if life were fair and all of the terrible things that happen came because we really deserved them? Now I take comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe.

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Isn't anyone allowed seek understanding into the reasons<br>behind what's been going on? To hear the OTHER SIDE of<br>the argument ----without your slimeball accusations?<p><hr></blockquote><p><br>Just following the outstanding example you set us all.<br><br><br><br>We all do what we do for the same reason: because it seems like a good idea at the time.

_________________________I used to think it was terrible that life was unfair. Then I thought what if life were fair and all of the terrible things that happen came because we really deserved them? Now I take comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe.

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